Actual conversation today
Posted by Michael Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:04:18 GMT
Him: People are willing to look at and buy this because it’s what is popular right now.
Me: This doesn’t actually provide any security, it’s an illusion product.
Him: Who cares, people will pay a large amount of money for this. The margin is great.
Me: Isn’t this like stealing? I’m more interested in actual solutions, not snowballing people into something that doesn’t actually work.
Him: ::Goes on 20 minute spew on them vs competitor ending with:: “and it will stop information leaving your network via http POST”
Me: So if I submit to a form submit via GET what happens?
Him: Well we don’t block that.
Me: So I just circumvented your very expensive system just from listening to your pitch. What other parts aren’t going to work?
Yep, that really happened.
